Best Short Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated short games.

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Full Throttle Remastered Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.

Price -89% 1.69€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Apr 2017
The Search Embark on a journey of discovery and inspiration in The Search - a story-driven puzzle-adventure set in a mysterious world where art comes to life!

Price -70% 1.19€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Apr 2017
Fibrillation HD Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 Apr 2017
Zup! Zero Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Apr 2017
The Franz Kafka Videogame An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.

Price -94% 0.42€
Rating 6.3
Release 06 Apr 2017
Sweet fantasy Visual novel. Young and pretty nymph Pumpkin fell in love with her mistress.

Price -47% 2.67€
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Apr 2017
Blackwood Crossing Blackwood Crossing is a story-driven first-person adventure game. An intriguing and emotive tale exploring the fragile relationship between orphaned siblings, Scarlett and Finn. When their paths cross with a mysterious figure, an ordinary train ride evolves into a magical story of life, love and loss.

Price 15.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 04 Apr 2017
Dawn Dawn is an atmospheric 3D platformer in which players guide a druidic creature named Ash through a beautiful environment to bring life and light back to a dead tree at the center of the world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Mar 2017
Oik 2 Casual physics puzzle

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Mar 2017
Nephise Nephise is a short and atmospheric puzzle game with narration. It is a relaxing and mysterious experience especially with the help of its music.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Mar 2017
aMAZE aMaze is a straight-forward and surprisingly-difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze.

Price -82% 0.37€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Mar 2017
DED DED - a game in the shoot'em up genre. Your granddaughter has been kidnapped, and your daughter and son-in-law murdered. Having just bits and pieces of information about the abductors, you will have to save your granddaughter and find the masterminds behind these crimes.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Mar 2017
Four Last Things Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.

Price -76% 2.33€
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Feb 2017
Zup! 4 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Feb 2017
The Mooseman You are the Mooseman and you have the ability to see all that is hidden to the mortal eye. You are about to visit three layers of this universe - the first one is the Lower World where dead reside…

Price -90% 0.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Feb 2017
Hidden Folks Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Price -95% 0.81€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Feb 2017
Oik Casual physics puzzle

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Feb 2017
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

Price -90% 1.00€
Rating 7.3
Release 14 Feb 2017
Leaving Lyndow It's Clara's last day on the island where she grew up. She needs to complete preparations, visit her favorite places, and say her goodbyes before leaving on a journey she may not return from.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Feb 2017
A Normal Lost Phone A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.

Price -82% 0.54€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Jan 2017
Zup! 3 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Jan 2017
Milkmaid of the Milky Way Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game in rhyme that combines a gripping story with puzzles and exploration. What happens when a young milkmaid sees an alien craft in a fjord in 1920's Norway?

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Jan 2017
Super Blue Boy Planet SBBP is a 2D platformer with pixel graphics. Blue boy’s girlfriend is kidnapped by aliens so he goes through 21 levels to save her and he also fight bosses along the way.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Dec 2016
Her Majesty's SPIFFING Her Majesty's SPIFFING is a quaint graphic adventure game following the exploits of Captain Frank Lee English and his trusted regional accented colleague, Aled, as they travel through the cosmos in search of planets to claim for a new Galactic British Empire!

Price -85% 1.90€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Dec 2016
Zup! 2 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Dec 2016
Alicemare Alicemare is a somehow familiar yet totally unique adventure game infused with subtle hints of horror, created by △○□× (Miwashiba) using the WOLF RPG Editor.

Price -50% 1.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Nov 2016
Silence Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.

Price -97% 0.61€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Nov 2016
One Night Stand After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?

Price -31% 2.07€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Nov 2016
VOI Do you think 1 + 1 = 0 is correct? So what do you think about "black + black = white" statement?

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Nov 2016
House of the Dying Sun House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. Hunt the enemies of the Empire and bring ruin to their people.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Nov 2016
The Survey In the end, everybody gets what they deserve. The sins of the past always manifest within the minds of the sinners. An eternity of suffering awaits, welcome to The Survey.

Price -59% 2.08€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Oct 2016
Awkward Dimensions Redux They may be awkward dimensions, but they're my dreams...

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Oct 2016
Off-Peak You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 21 Oct 2016
Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice. Reloaded Sequel to the amazing adventures of two Russian pop-culture legends: Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev and his fellow aide Petka who fearlessly beat off the alien invasion in a first franchise installment.

Price -75% 1.25€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Oct 2016
Blameless Blameless is a mysterious first-person adventure with primary focus on puzzle solving and short story. The player will appear in a role of an architect trying to investigate strange happenings, after discovering evidence of an act of violence.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Oct 2016
Scrap Garden - The Day Before A new chapter of charming 3D platformer about the little rusty robot C4N who unwittingly finds himself in the midst of momentous events in Robo Land. In order to solve the new riddle, Canny will once again need to run and jump a lot, solve puzzles, and fight against enemies who are much bigger and stronger than he is.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 07 Oct 2016

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